5939. Adulteration of tomato pulp. V.' S. * * * v. 250 Gases * * * of 
Tomato Pulp. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction,    fr. & D. No. 8178.    I. S. No. 11750-m.    S. No. C-679.)
On March 13, 19J7, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court, of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 250 cases, each containing 4 dozen cans of tomato pulp, re- 
maining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging 
that the article had been shipped on November 18, 1916, by the Baltimore Can- 
ning Co., Baltimore, Md., and transported from the State of Maryland into the 
State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.    The article was labeled in part, " Ruxton Brand Tomato Pulp."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On December 6, 1917, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,